Idetifications & MDE Flashcards
Mention MLI & identification of ages 15 and 18
15:
-Custody of the mother ends for both males and females but may be extended if the jude sees it is in the best interest of the children
-Above this age the child is sentenced as adul but with reduced sanctions (no life imprisonment, no death sentence or forced labour)
-Identified by enion of trochlea and capitulum with shaft of humerus and closure of acetabular suture.
18:
-age of consent, marriage,voting, full criminal responsibilty, driving liscence, governmental employment, military recruitment.
-males: union of metacarals with their distal ends
-females: union of lower ends of radius and ulna with their shafts
Mention identification of ages 21and 23
21:
-Union of lower end of femur with it shaft
-Union of upper end of tibia with its shaft
-Union of ischial tuberosity with ischium
23:
-Union union of iliac crest with ilium
-Basiocciput-basisphenoid suture
-Union pf sternal end of clavicle with its shaft
Uses of DNA profiling in forensics
- Idnetification of probable origin of body fluid in crime scene
- Revealing familty relationship
- Idnetifying disaster victims
- Identifying sex and species
- Identifying genes connected with hereditary disease
Mention duties of medical officer when confroned with a case of ‘death’
- Inspect the body to make sure that:
A. The person is dead and not in a suspended animation state
B. The cause of death is anatural one - Declare death
- Issue the medical certficate for the immediate or recent cause of death accurately provided he is sure of the cause of death and that it is natural
Mention cases in which a death certificate is withheld
- Sudden death with unclear cause
- Acute or chronic durg toxicity
- Accident contributing to death
- Death under anaesthesia or after a surgical procedure
- Drug related death whether therapeutic or overdose
Mention duties of doctor when a person admitted as MLC dies
- Inform the police immediately
- Send the bodyto the hospital mortuaryfor preservationtill legal formalities are comlpeted
- Do no issue a death certificate
- Do not release the body to the relatives
